The Weather Inside Me: On Listening to Björk

Some artists sing.
Björk summons.

Her voice doesn’t ask to be understood — it dares you to feel.
Something ancient, fragile, and wild.
Like standing barefoot in the rain, trying to remember what love felt like before the world made you cautious.

She doesn’t craft songs — she builds elemental landscapes.
Volcanoes. Tectonic shifts. Melting glaciers of emotion.
Each track is weather: not something to follow, but something to survive.

There’s rage in her tenderness.
There’s prayer in her chaos.
Even her silence feels like thunder gathering on the edge of a map.

I don’t know how many nights I’ve listened to Vespertine like a secret I didn’t know I was allowed to keep.
Or how often Hyperballad has broken my heart with that line about throwing things off the cliff — just to see what it feels like to let go.

She reminds me that art isn’t meant to be digestible.
It’s meant to wake the animal in us.
The water. The wire. The wish.

Björk is not just music.
She’s the soundtrack of interior worlds — the kind you don’t show anyone.
Unless they already understand.

And maybe that’s why we find each other —
those of us who carry too much weather inside.

Maybe that’s what makes her music so necessary —
She doesn’t offer comfort.
She offers truth.
Emotional landscapes, carved by sound.
And some of us are still learning how to walk through them.
"Emotional landscapes / They puzzle me..." — Björk, Jóga